Fabric care composition

• US 20060217288A1
• Filed: 02/16/2006
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Original Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Inventors: Deckner, George Endel, Boutique, Jean-Pol, Johnson, Eric Scott, Williams, Barbara Kay, Wang, Jiping, Brown, Jodi Lee, Wahl, Errol Hoffman, Wagers, Ruth Anne, de Buzzaccarini, Francesco, Watkins, Michele Ann, Brush, Lisa Grace, Deplancke, Patrick Firmin August
• Granted Patent: US 7,534,759 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 510/515
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/043 Liquid or thixotropic (gel) compositions
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/0015 liquid
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/227 with nitrogen-containing groups
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/373 containing silicones
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/3742 Nitrogen containing silicones

Abstract

The articles, compositions, and kits of the present invention are useful for conditioning fabric.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture comprising a compartment, a composition, and a water soluble film;

wherein the composition comprises a unit dose of a fabric softening active and a coacervate;

wherein one unit dose of coacervate achieves from about 1 parts per million (“

ppm”

) to about 25 ppm of the coacervate if the article is administered in a 64 liter basin of an automatic washing machine of water;

wherein the ppm amount of the coacervate does not include water that may or may not be associated with the coacervate; and

wherein the water soluble film encapsulates the composition to form the compartment.

2. The article of claim 1, wherein the coacervate comprises a cationic polymer, wherein the cationic polymer is chosen from a cationic guar gum, a cationic cellulose polymer, or a combination thereof.

3. The article of claim 2, wherein the cationic polymer comprises at least a cationic guar gum, wherein the cationic guar gum comprises a range of charge density from about 0.07 meq/g to about 0.95 meq/g.

4. The article of claim 2, wherein the cationic polymer comprises at least a cationic cellulose polymer, where the cationic cellulose polymer comprises a charge density from about 0.5% to about 60%, wherein a 1% charge density is defined a one cationic charge per 100 glucose units.

5. The article of claim 1, wherein the fabric softening active comprises from about 2% to about 90% by weight of the composition, and wherein the fabric softening active is chosen from a polyalkyl silicone, an aminosilicone, or a combination thereof;

and wherein the article further comprises a perfume microcapsule.

6. The article of claim 2, wherein the fabric softening active comprises from about 2% to about 90% by weight of the composition, and wherein the fabric softening active is chosen from a polyalkyl silicone, an aminosilicone, or a combination thereof.

7. The article of claim 6, wherein the unit dose of the polyalkyl silicone, aminosilicone, or combination thereof comprises achieving from about 10 ppm (“

parts per million”

) to about 200 ppm of the polyalkyl silicone, aminosilicone, or combination thereof if the article is administered in a 64 liter basin of an automatic washing machine of water.

8. The article of claim 7, wherein the polyalkyl silicone comprises a viscosity from about 10,000 cSt to about 600,000 cSt, and the aminosilicone comprises a viscosity from about 50 cSt to about 100,000 cSt.

9. The article of claim 8, wherein the polyalkyl silicone, aminosilicone, or combination thereof comprises particles having a median diameter on a volumetric basis (“

χ

₅₀”

) of from about 1 micrometers to about 30 micrometers.

10. The article of claim 9, wherein the composition further comprises a solvent from about 30% to about 70% by weight of the composition, wherein the solvent comprises at least a polyethylene glycol (“

PEG”

), glycerin, or a combination thereof; and

wherein the water soluble film comprises a polyvinyl alcohol; and

wherein the polyalkyl silicone comprises a viscosity from about 100,000 cSt to about 350,000 cSt.

11. The article of claim 9, wherein the article further comprises a static control agent, wherein the static control agent is chosen from an amine-organic anion ion-pair complex, an amine-inorganic anion ion-pair complex, or a combination thereof

12. The article of claim 11, wherein the article further comprises a second compartment wherein the second compartment comprises the static control agent.

13. The article of claim 11, wherein the article further comprises a perfume microcapsule, and wherein the water soluble film comprises a polyvinyl alcohol, and wherein the article comprises less than about 5%, by weight of the article, of a detersive detergent surfactant.

14. An article of manufacture comprising a compartment, a composition, and a water soluble film;

wherein the composition comprises a coacervate and a fabric care active,

wherein the coacervate comprises from about 0.1% to about 10% by weight of the composition, and wherein the weight percentage does not include water that may or may not be associated with the coacervate;

wherein the coacervate is comprised of a cationic polymer chosen from a cationic guar gum, a cationic cellulose polymer, or a combination thereof;

wherein the fabric care active comprising a silicone;

wherein the silicone comprises from about 2% to about 90% by weight of the composition;

wherein the silicone comprises a viscosity from about 10,000 cSt to about 600,000 cSt; and

wherein the water soluble film encapsulates the composition to form the compartment.

15. The article of claim 14, wherein the cationic guar gum comprises a range of charge density from about 0.07 meq/g to about 0.95 meq/g;

and wherein the cationic cellulose polymer comprises a charge density from about 0.5% to about 60%, wherein a 1% charge density is defined a one cationic charge per 100 glucose units.

16. The article of claim 15, wherein the silicone the silicone is a polydialkylsilicone, and wherein the silicone comprises particles having a median diameter on a volumetric basis (“

χ

₅₀”

) of from about 0.1 micrometers to about 500 micrometers.

17. The article of claim 16, wherein the silicone comprises a polydimethylsilicone (PDMS), wherein the PDMS comprises a viscosity from about 60,000 cSt to about 600,000 cSt;

and wherein the article comprises less than about 5% by weight of the article of a detersive detergent surfactant.

18. The article of claim 17, wherein the composition further comprises a solvent from about 30% to about 70% by weight of the composition, wherein the solvent comprises at least a polyethylene glycol (“

PEG”

), glycerin, or a combination thereof.

19. The article of claim 17, wherein the article further comprises a static control agent, wherein the static control agent is chosen from an amine-organic anion ion-pair complex, an amine-inorganic anion ion-pair complex, or a combination thereof.

20. The article of claim 17, wherein the article further comprises a friable perfume microcapsule, and wherein the water soluble film comprises a polyvinyl alcohol;

and wherein the PDMS comprises a viscosity from about 60,000 cSt to about 350,000 cSt.

21. An article comprising at least a first compartment, a second compartment, and a water soluble film;

wherein the first compartment comprises at least one unit dose of a first composition comprising an amine-organic anion ion-pair complex, or an amine-inorganic anion ion-pair complex, or a combination thereof;

wherein the second compartment comprises at least one unit dose of a second composition wherein the second composition comprises a fabric care active; and

wherein the water soluble film encapsulates the first composition to form the first compartment, and the soluble film encapsulates the second composition to form the second compartment.

22. The article of claim 21, wherein the amine-organic anion ion-pair complex, or an amine-inorganic anion ion-pair complex, or a combination thereof is in the form of a prill;

and wherein the unit dose of the amine-organic anion ion-pair complex, or an amine-inorganic anion ion-pair complex, or a combination thereof comprises achieving from about 5 parts per million (“

ppm”

) to about 100 ppm if the article is administered in a 64 liter basin of an automatic washing machine of water.

23. The article of claim 22, wherein the first composition is substantially free of a neat perfume.

24. The article of claim 22, wherein the fabric care active of the second composition comprises a silicone;

wherein the silicone comprises from about 2% to about 90% by weight of the second composition;

wherein the silicone comprises a viscosity from about 10,000 cSt to about 600,000 cSt; and

wherein the silicone comprises particles having a median diameter on a volumetric basis (“

χ

₅₀”

) of from about 0.1 micrometers to about 500 micrometers.

25. The article of claim 24, wherein the second composition further comprises a coacervate,

wherein the coacervate comprises a cationic guar gum, a cationic cellulose polymer, or a combination thereof;

wherein the cationic guar gum comprises a range of charge density from about 0.07 meq/g to about 0.95 meq/g; and

wherein the cationic cellulose polymer, where the cationic cellulose polymer comprises a charge density from about 0.5% to about 60%, wherein a 1% charge density is defined a one cationic charge per 100 glucose units.

26. The article of claim 25, wherein the article further comprises a perfume microcapsule;

and wherein the article comprises less than about 5%, by weight of the article, of a detersive detergent surfactant.

27. The article of claim 21, wherein the second composition further comprises at least about 5%, by weight of a detersive detergent surfactant;

wherein the article fturther comprises a perfume microcapsule; and

wherein the water soluble film comprises a polyvinyl alcohol film.

28. The article of claim 21, wherein the second composition further comprises at least about 5%, by weight of a detersive detergent surfactant;

wherein the article further comprises a perfume microcapsule wherein the perfume microcapsules are contained in the first compartment; and

wherein the water soluble film comprises a polyvinyl alcohol film.

29. The article of claim 28 wherein the fabric care active is a polyalkyl silicone, an aminosilicone, or a combination thereof.